Global New Process Integration Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Mine Safety Appliances Inc, (MSA) • Cranberry Township, PA

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About The Position

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career. At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do. We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world. We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day. This strategic leadership role is responsible for identifying, planning, and implementing programs and initiatives that build and sustain best-in-class process integration standards and manufacturing plant engineering principles. The role partners closely with operations directors, managers, and professionals across the global network to define best practices, processes, and procedures for industrialization. Responsibilities also include coordinating and facilitating training related to industrialization.

Requirements

• 10 years manufacturing and assembly experience of complex electromechanical products that rely on some core materials technology.
• Experience working in new product development and new product industrialization including line design, installation, commissioning, and production ramp up.
• Automotive, aerospace or defense industry experience.
• Experience of using tools including but not limited to APQP, PPAP, SPC as well as Production Control Plans.
• Experience should span both internally manufactured and contract manufactured assemblies and include experience managing operating lines.
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or related field, preferably from an ABET accredited program.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in managing distributed and indirect teams (domestically and internationally).
• Advanced degree.
• PMP (Project Management Professional).
• Lean Manufacturing.
• Continuing education in management studies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of strategies for moving from product design to mass production.
• Drive New Product Development (NPD) process changes to ensure the success of Industrialization goals & objectives.
• Recommend, influence, and implement organizational structure changes to support the success of Industrialization.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available to support projects and goals (including resources external to MissionOPS and/or MSA).
• Act as the liaison between various teams, including R&D, PMO, Quality, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Operations Engineering.
• Drive a comprehensive risk register of all industrialization risks (including but not limited to safety, quality, delivery, & cost) and mitigations that can affect the industrialization of the new product.
• Inspire innovation and partner with operations leaders and advanced manufacturing standards to develop new ways to manufacture products more efficiently.
• Own and drive global plant engineering standards to drive best in class process integration and lean manufacturing.
• Actively participate and lead defining the global ERP standards to successfully execute manufacturing in the order to fulfillment process.
• Operate directly with design assurance to implement and oversee robust control measures to ensure final products meet all manufacturing performance requirements.
• Develop processes, standards, and tools to evaluate the design for ease of assembly, manufacturability, material usage, and overall production efficiencies.
• Work closely with product designers, tooling & manufacturing engineers, and other new product industrialization (NPI) leaders to identify areas of improvement or potential challenges in manufacturing.
• Implement and verify processes are in place to oversee the testing and validation of production processes, ensuring that the manufacturing process drives the final product requirements.
• Standardize new process integration practices across all center-led and launch sites.
• Audit and provide governance to industrialization teams and the NPD process on industrialization requirements.
• Develop, deploy, and monitor standard processes and tools to ensure industrializations are executed in a consistent manner.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Administration of Economic Programs
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees